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A first cutoff point ('balanced score') was defined so as to optimise the proportion of sensitivity and specificity scores.
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Some authors prefer a score that (a) gives the best proportion of sensitivity and specificity, indicating the point at which the percentage of wrongly classified patients is reduced to a minimum ('balanced score').
Examining sensitivity and specificity, that is, the proportion of true positives (sensitivity) and true negatives (specificity), which are correctly identified by the four-step decision tree.
The ROC plot shows that with an increase in the proportion of true positives (sensitivity) the proportion of false positives also increased (Fig. 3).
For a continuous-scaled marker, the ROC curve graphically depicts the method's discriminatory ability for all threshold values in a unit square by plotting the proportion of true positives (sensitivity) versus the proportion of false positives (1−specificity).
Dropping the threshold to "probably cancer" increases the proportion of cancers detected (sensitivity increases) but more normal patients are labeled positive; the false-positive fraction increases (decreased specificity).
A ROC curve shows the relationship between the proportion of true positive (Sensitivity) and false positive (1-Specificity) classifications resulting from each possible decision threshold value in a two-class classification task [ 20].
Information for cases alone does not allow calculation of sensitivity (the proportion of true cases correctly identified in the GPRD data), specificity (the proportion of individuals without the disease identified as such in the database), or negative predictive value.
He addressed the racial issue straightforwardly, striving to increase the proportion of blacks and the sensitivity of whites.
A large majority of them are due to Candida albicans, but the proportion of strains with decreased sensitivity or resistance to fluconazole is increasingly reported.
There was no significant difference in the proportion of cases with viraemia (sensitivity) or level of viraemia between these two groups of patients.
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